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Maxine Peake
Maxine Peake

Maxine Peake

ActingBorn July 14, 1974 (age 51)Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK

Biography

Maxine Peake (born 14 July 1974) is an English stage, radio, film and television actress, playwright, producer, director and political activist, who made her name as Twinkle in Victoria Wood's sitcom Dinnerladies. She has since played Veronica in Channel 4's Manchester-based drama series Shameless, barrister Martha Costello in the BBC legal drama Silk and Grace Middleton in The Village. She is also an accomplished stage actress, having played the title role in Hamlet, and had a role in the 2014 film The Theory of Everything. In 2018 she played the lead in the film Funny Cow and had a starring role in Mike Leigh's epic Peterloo, a film very close to her heart.

Filmography

2026TV
2026
Bait

as Helen

TV
2026Movie
2025Movie
2025
The Occupant of the Room

as The Englishwoman (voice)

Movie
2025
I Swear

as Dottie

Movie
2025
Words of War

as Anna Politkovskaya

Movie
2024
The Haunted Season

as The Englishwoman (voice)

TV
2024
Say Nothing

as Older Dolours Price

TV
2024Movie
2024
Woken

as Helen

Movie
2023
Tish

as Tish Murtha (voice)

Movie
2023
Dance First

as Barbara

Movie
2023
Choked Up

as Fiona Lacey

Movie
2022
Wendell & Wild

as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)

Movie
2022
Inner Polar Bear

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2022
Lapushka!

as Scoot Piccolo

Movie
2022
Art That Made Us

as Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)

TV
2022
Rules of the Game

as Sam Thompson

TV
2022Movie
2022
Anne

as Anne Williams

TV
2021
Star Wars: Visions

as Kalina Kalfus (voice)

TV
2020
Mandy

as Susan Blower

TV
2020TV
2020
Surfaces

as Alix

Movie
2020Movie
2020
It's Me

as Miriam

Movie
2019Movie
2019
Judy

as Judy

Movie
2018
Peterloo

as Nellie

Movie
2018
The Bisexual

as Sadie

TV
2018
Gwen

as Elen

Movie
2018
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels

as Friedrich Engels (voice)

Movie
2018
Funny Cow

as Funny Cow

Movie
2018
Wonders of the Moon

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2017Movie
2017Movie
2017Movie
2017
Unseen

as Emma

Movie
2017
Three Girls

as Sara Rowbotham

TV
2017Movie
2016
Generation '66

as Narrator

Movie
2016Movie
2016
Red Top

as Rebekah Brooks

Movie
2016
I Wish For You

as Grown Up Mia

Movie
2015
The Falling

as Eileen Lamont

Movie
2015
Hamlet

as Hamlet

Movie
2015
Artsnight

as Self - Presenter

TV
2015Movie
2015
The Shuttleworths

as Helen Bach

Movie
2014Movie
2014
Keeping Rosy

as Charlotte

Movie
2014
Inside No. 9

as Nadia

TV
2014
Run & Jump

as Vanetia

Movie
2013
Svengali

as Angie

Movie
2013
The Village

as Grace Middleton

TV
2012
Private Peaceful

as Hazel Peaceful

Movie
2012
Room at the Top

as Alice Aisgill

TV
2012
The Hollow Crown

as Doll Tearsheet

TV
2012Movie
2011
DeafBlind

as Maggie

Movie
2011
Black Mirror

as Bella

TV
2011
Silk

as Martha Costello QC

TV
2010
Edge

as Elly

Movie
2010Movie
2009Movie
2008
The Devil's Whore

as Elizabeth Lilburne

TV
2008
Little Dorrit

as Miss Wade

TV
2008
Clubbed

as Angela

Movie
2008
Criminal Justice

as Juliet Miller

TV
2008
Hancock & Joan

as Joan Le Mesurier

Movie
2008
Fairy Tales

as Cindy Mellor

TV
2008
Bike Squad

as WPC Kate McFay

Movie
2007
Would Like To Meet

as George's Mum

Movie
2007
I Am Bob

as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant

Movie
2007Movie
2006
The One Show

as Self - Guest

TV
2006TV
2005
Frozen

as Ticket Attendant

Movie
2005
Faith

as Linda

Movie
2004Movie
2004
Shameless

as Veronica Fisher

TV
2003
Early Doors

as Janice

TV
2002
All or Nothing

as Party girl

Movie
2002
Timeshift

as Self - Narrator

TV
2002
Hamilton Mattress

as Lulu (voice)

Movie
2001
Linda Green

as Receptionist

TV
2001
Messiah

as DS Vickie Clarke

TV
2000
Clocking Off

as Marie Leach

TV
1999
Sunburn

as Sue

TV
1998
dinnerladies

as Twinkle

TV
1998
Girls' Night

as Sharon

Movie
1997
Jonathan Creek

as Marion Cretiss

TV
1996
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

as Photocopy Assistant

TV
Twisting My Melon

as Linda Ryder

Movie
TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayJuly 14, 1974
Place of BirthWesthoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
Popularity1.5